Quote:
Originally Posted by barney  It is my understanding that everyone, according to islamic beleif, is due to spend a proportion of time in hell to attone for their sin. But this did not apply to prophets or Martyers.
The implication being that Prophets had no sin to attone for (and martyers's sins being attoned for by their actions on the battlefield) |
No, that is not the case. Since Allaah will forgive some of his servants if He wills, especially since one of the best deeds is to repent to Allaah for ones wrongdoings. And if a person was to repent sincerely and submit to Allaah - then Allaah will forgive them.
It's the concept of reward and punishment - those who disbelieved that Allaah should be worshipped alone and turned away from His Mercy will be punished since that is the promise of Allaah. However, there are believers who will be forgiven since they repented to Allaah while believing that there is none worthy of worship except Him.
For example: If there was a child and i promised him that i would reward him for doing a certain act, then it becomes my duty to reward him for that act. If i never went along with this promise - it is making me unjust.
However, if there was a child who did wrong, and i told him that if you commit this wrong - i will punish you, and the child did it and said "I'm sorry" - i would forgive him and no-one could say that what i did was unjust, i forgave him out of my mercy.
And Allaah knows best.
Regards.